News outlets both large and small are encouraged to apply. In an email to Journalism.co.uk, OpenNews said: "Just as the Knight-Mozilla fellowships are international, the code sprint grants are also international and a great way to work with news organisations we're not currently connected with."

The grants aim to "fund small-scale utilities and tools that help solve specific, repeatable journalistic problems", according to an announcement post.

"At OpenNews, we want to help build great tools to do journalism, and we want those tools to be open-sourced and freely available to everyone," it continues.

OpenNews gives three examples of simple, repeatable tools built to solve journalistic problems:

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